Composition
Pillow lavas are commonly of basaltic composition, although pillows formed of komatiite, picrite, boninite, basaltic andesite, andesite or even dacite are known. In general the more intermediate the composition, the larger the pillows, due to the increase in viscosity of the erupting lava.
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